- Every southern gothic novel ever
I would read many of these.
Author: Alasdair
Bookmarks for September 9, 2015
- Social Decay: How Tweets Can Predict The Death Of An App – BuzzFeed News
My takeaway from this is that over time, any serice that is largely geared toward "share what you're doing on Twitter (or Facebook)" is doomed. You have to make the whole widget. If your business relies on people sharing what they do on other people's sites, it's pointless. You want them to come to your site. Your site/app has to be self contained and social in itself.
Bookmarks for September 4, 2015
- cantino/huginn
Self hosted IFTTT like service. Of possible interest. One of my issues with services like IFTTT is that they're only really useful if you start to give them data like when you're in and out of the house. On the one hand, I don't think there are criminals out there who have hacked these services, and are using them to plan burglaries. On the other, I'm still really uncomfortable with giving third parties access to that data.
Bookmarks for September 3, 2015
- Five years, building a culture, and handing it off. – Laughing Meme
Notable and interesting stuff in here.
Bookmarks for August 21, 2015
- Real Life First Person Shooter (Chatroulette version) – YouTube
These people put together a real-life FPS played via Chatroulette. This is some superb work.
- sqmk/Phue
A PHP client for Philips Hue. Because reasons. Also, Dave is a bastard. Because reasons.
Bookmarks for August 13, 2015
- The ethics of modern web ad-blocking – Marco.org
This is pretty much my position. I don't mind (ell, I do, but I'll live with it) being show a few adds in exchange for content. I *do* mind being tracked by 15 different sources, none of whom I have given informed consent to be tracked by, and none of whom are ever made clear. So I block ads and trackers, and encourage others to do the same.
Bookmarks for August 11, 2015
- Eddie Campbell and the Mythology of Minutiae
Everyone should read Eddie Campbell. If you have not, I encourage you to read this article, and then acquire a copy of Alec. Any volume. Or any of his other works.
Bookmarks for August 10, 2015
- Stefan Wrobel – How to make Vagrant performance not suck
Useful stuff.
Bookmarks for August 5, 2015
- Show HN: My SSH server knows who you are | Hacker News
Need to go through this and clean up my ssh settings.
Bookmarks for August 3, 2015
- How I Gave Up Alternating Current | Mostly Harmless
The creator of Soylent is a bit of a twat, film at 11. What interests me here isn't the ultra-ascetic life he's chosen for himself, or his total obliviousness to a: the horror of it, b: the phenomenal privilege that enables him to do it (c: what he sounds like) – it's simply the fact that he's been able to do it at all. This isn't the unevenly distributed future talking, but I suspect it's a marker on the way.